Camille Cosby Gets Defensive During Deposition

Camille Cosby clearly didn't like the hot seat. The wife of embattled comedian Bill Cosby comes off as doggedly tight-lipped and defensive in a 15-page snapshot of her recent deposition in a libel lawsuit brought by seven accusers.

The excerpt was released by Cosby's lawyers Tuesday as they try to convince a judge that the civil lawsuit should be put on hold pending his felony prosecution in Pennsylvania.

It focuses on several exchanges between Camille and plaintiff's lawyer Joseph Cammarata in a Springfield, Mass., hotel on Feb. 22.

The two spar repeatedly over her knowledge of the Andrea Constand case that underpins Cosby's pending felony charges.

Constand's accusations that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004 are the basis for the criminal charges filed Dec. 30 against Cosby in Montgomery County.

Camille Cosby claimed under questioning by Cammarata that she never read the civil complaint Constand filed against Cosby in 2005.

She testified that the only details she knew about the case came directly from her husband and a lawyer.

"I don't remember," she answered repeatedly when asked for details on when and where she heard about the case.

She said she was aware her husband was deposed a decade ago but declined to give specifics on whether the couple discussed the testimony.

Sections of Cosby's Constand depositions that were released last year revealed he admitted under oath that he obtained Quaaludes to give to women he found sexually attractive.